x, 325 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Dieudonné on mathematics : mathematics and mathematicians / Jean Dieudonné -- Why is mathematics? : Mathematics and the physical world / Morris Kline -- Is mathematics inevitable? : Mathematics in fun and in earnest / Nathan Altshiller Court -- A defense of quadratic equations : quadratic equations -- Obtuse triangles : there are three times as many obtuse-angled triangles as there are acute-angled ones / Richard K. Guy -- Why your classes are larger than "average" / David Hemenway -- Why is a restaurant's business worse in the owner's eyes than in the customers'? / Wong Ngai Ying -- Applied mathematics : assigning driver's license numbers / Jospeh A. Gallian -- The law of small numbers : the strong law of small numbers / Richard K. Guy -- The parallel postulate : the problem with Postulate 5 / Richard J. Trudeau -- Arithmetic in the United States : a calculating people / Patricia Cline Cohen -- The Moore Method: I want to be a mathematician / Paul Halmos -- Early calculus -- Problems : on the origin of certain typical problems / David Eugene Smith -- A tangled tale / Lewis Carroll -- A brief life : brief lives / John Aubry -- Cardano : the book of my life / Jerome Cardan -- Boole and finite differences : George Boole and the calculus of finite differences / J.L. Synge -- Calculating prodigies : the great mental calculators / Steven B. Smith -- James Smith, circle-squarer : the quadrature of the circle / James Smith -- Legislating [pi] : Indiana's squared circle / Arthur E. Hallerberg -- Mathematics and music : emblems of mind / Edward Rothstein -- Mathematics books : on the value of mathematics (books) / G.L. Alexanderson and L.F. Klosinski -- Irrational square roots : Theodorus' irrationality proofs / Robert L. McCabe -- The Euler-Diderot anecdote : the so-called Euler-Diderot incident / R.J. Gillings -- Mathematics made difficult / Carl E. Linderholm -- Mathematical humor : on the set of legs of a horse / Marlow Sholander

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